As leaves begin to fall and the joy of fresh stationery is felt, we’re looking ahead to what else September will bring. From a study of musician Dame Evelyn Glennie to Mozart’s creative imagination to an exploration of transparency in modern American fiction, take a look at September’s releases…
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EVELYN GLENNIE: SOUND CREATOR
Georgina Hughes
A case study of a pioneering musician and an interdisciplinary appraisal of the larger social role of the artist.
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THE POLYPHONIC MASS IN EARLY LUTHERAN CENTRAL EUROPE
Alanna Ropchock Tierno
Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN
Priscilla Layne
A new reading of Fassbinder’s most popular film that highlights the roles of race and gender.
PLANTATION SLAVERY, JAMAICA AND ABSENTEE OWNERSHIP
Richard C. Maguire
An economic history of the Burton family of Norfolk, and their enslaved workers on the Chiswick sugar estate.
Robert E. Bjork
An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards.
ITALIAN OPERA SINGING IN THE TIME OF VERISMO
Barbara Gentili
Connects discussions of vocality and operatic culture with broader aesthetic and cultural shifts in society.
THE POLITICS OF TRANSPARENCY IN MODERN AMERICAN FICTION
Edited by Paula Martín-Salván and Sascha Pöhlmann
Explores modern and contemporary American literature’s contribution to and critique of the newly emerging field of transparency studies.
HABITUATION IN GERMAN MODERNISM
Meindert Peters
Investigates the relationship of early twentieth-century German literature and thought with contemporary cognitive studies and posits a new theory of modernism.
PORTRAYING THE GURU
Atsushi Ikeda
Brings to light the evolution of Sikh art from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
MOZART, GENIUS AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF ART
Edmund J. Goehring
Demonstrates that the concept of genius is as vitally needed as ever and can illuminate the workings of Mozart’s creative imagination.
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